Twenty-six local arts organizations have been awarded with a share of more than $1.75 million in funding this year through the Sustaining Program for Professional Arts Organizations.
Executive Director of ArtsNL, Melanie Martin says the program is a crucial source of support for professional arts organizations.
Funding includes $85,000 for Artistic Fraud, $95,000 for the Eastern Edge Gallery and nearly $40,000 for the Friends of Writers at Woody Point.
Recipients:
- Artistic Fraud: $85,000
- Camber Arts: $50,000
- Eastern Edge Gallery: $95,000
- Friends of Writers at Woody Point: $39,180
- Kittiwake Dance Theatre: $39,180
- Lawnya Vawnya Inc.: $39,180
- Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Arts Society: $72,750
- Newfoundland Dance Presenters (NDW): $88,000
- Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Coop (NIFCO): $90,000
- Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (NSO): $100,000
- Nickel Independent Film Festival: $65,000
- Opera on the Avalon: $85,000
- Perchance Theatre: $75,000
- PerSIStence Theatre: $39,180
- RCA Theatre: $85,000
- Riddle Fence Publishing: $39,180
- Rising Tide Association: $95,000
- Sound Arts Initiatives, Inc. (Sound Symposium):$65,000
- Soundbone Traditional Arts Foundation: $55,000
- St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival Inc.: $65,000
- St. Michael’s Printshop: $70,000
- Stephenville Theatre: $39,180
- The Tuckamore Festival: $65,000
- TNL (Theatre Newfoundland Labrador): $95,000
- White Rooster Theatre: $39,180
- Wonderbolt Circus: $75,000